chevrón

/[t͡ʃeˈβ̞ɾõn]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

chevrón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Símbolo usado en heráldica y que tiene la forma de un compás. Habitualmente el vértice superior de este compás suele situarse en el centro del escudo, aunque en ciertas disposiciones se desplaza ha... Pronounced [t͡ʃeˈβ̞ɾõn].

Key facts for chevrón
PropertyValue
Headwordchevrón
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[t͡ʃeˈβ̞ɾõn]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chevrón is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for chevrón is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃeˈβ̞ɾõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Símbolo usado en heráldica y que tiene la forma de un compás. Habitualmente el vértice superior de este compás suele situarse en el centro del escudo, aunque en ciertas disposiciones se desplaza ha...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chevrón in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is chevrón, spelled C-H-E-V-R-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Símbolo usado en heráldica y que tiene la forma de un compás. Habitualmente el vértice superior de este compás suele situarse en el centro del escudo, aunque en ciertas disposiciones se desplaza hasta su borde superior. Sus patas se apoyan en los vértices inferiores del rectángulo en que el escudo se inscribe. Su significado era el de protección o de inspiradores de aquellos que hacen grandes obras por la fe.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chevrón"?
"chevrón" is spelled C-H-E-V-R-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [t͡ʃeˈβ̞ɾõn].
What does "chevrón" mean?
As a noun, "chevrón" means: Símbolo usado en heráldica y que tiene la forma de un compás. Habitualmente el vértice superior de este compás suele situarse en el centro del escudo, aunque en ciertas disposiciones se desplaza ha...
How do you pronounce "chevrón"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chevrón" is [t͡ʃeˈβ̞ɾõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chevrón" come from?
"chevrón" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.